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Featured News
May 10, 2007
News Release
LOS ANGELES – Nearly seven in ten voters believe that California’s health care system is in need of a significant overhaul and overwhelmingly support major reforms, according to a new non-partisan survey conducted for The California Endowment by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies.
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May 2, 2007
Opinion
Los Angeles Times
SMALL CHANGES, as any parent knows, can make a big difference in the lives of young children.
When Sheila Miguel, a single mother in Sun Valley, had no health insurance, her 7-year-old daughter, Chelsea, received only sporadic treatment for her asthma, usually in an emergency room after she suffered an attack. Chelsea almost never saw the same doctor twice.
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April 22, 2007
Opinion
Santa Cruz Sentinel
April 23 marks the beginning of National Cover the Uninsured Week, which has traditionally sought to raise awareness about the need to provide health coverage for all Americans. This year, however, is the perfect time to highlight the need to insure one of the most vulnerable populations: our children.
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March 13, 2007
Letters to the Editor
USA Today
With nearly 9 million children uninsured across the United States, the findings of a recent Families USA study underscore the urgency to provide health coverage to all kids. We guarantee health coverage to our seniors; the same should be done for our children ("Study: Uninsured kids fare worse at hospitals," News, March 2).
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March 1, 2007
Editorial
The Boston Globe
The Bush administration should be helping Massachusetts and other states with innovative expansions of health insurance, as it did last year, instead of applying a chokehold to a successful federal program that covers low-income children. Congress needs to provide money to maintain the program and apply it to the millions of young people who still are without health insurance.
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Feburary 4, 2007
News Story
San Francisco Chronicle
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez took his comprehensive health care proposal on the road Saturday, in the second in a series of public meetings around the state.
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January 22, 2007
Editorial
Los Angeles Times
Sacramento — The most volatile subjects in California politics today, arguably, are taxes and illegal immigration. Either or both could trip up Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislative leaders in their ambitious quests to overhaul California's healthcare system.
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January 9, 2007
News Release
The 100% Campaign (a collaborative effort of Children Now, Children's Defense Fund and The Children’s Partnership), PICO California, United Ways of California and the California Children’s Health Initiatives issued a statement today following the announcement of Governor Schwarzenegger on his health care reform package.
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January 8, 2007
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Editorial
We share Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's hope to insure California's kids. Whether they are in this nation illegally or not, minors deserve coverage for this reason alone: They're children.
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January 9, 2007
Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Calling for massive changes throughout a healthcare system he called "broken," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday proposed a $12-billion plan that would require all Californians to obtain medical insurance while helping the poorest to afford it.
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January 4, 2007
Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose that all Californian children, including those in the state illegally, be guaranteed medical insurance as part of the health-care overhaul he intends to unveil next week, according to officials familiar with the plan. Read more >
January 4, 2007
Sacramento Bee
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will call for universal insurance for California children in the health care proposal he unveils next week -- but isn't likely to suggest a way to pay for it, advocates who have been briefed on the plan said Wednesday. Read more >
January 4, 2007
San Jose Mercury News
It's becoming increasingly clear that California will have a new health care plan by the end of 2007.
The only question is, how comprehensive will it be?
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December 16, 2006
North County Times Editorial
Though our health care system is still ailing, at least a little color is returning to the cheeks of the local, state and federal efforts to fix it. Read more >
December 15, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial
California is about to take on a challenge on a scale no other state has faced: bringing down spiraling health-care costs and insuring 6.7 million residents who lack even basic health coverage. Read more >
December 10, 2006
San Jose Mercury News Editorial
More than 1,000 days have passed since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to provide health insurance for all of California's 10 million children. But as 2007 approaches, the state still has 800,000 uninsured children, of whom more than 80 percent (650,000) are legal residents. Read more >
December 10, 2006
Santa Cruz Sentinel OpEd
As the Legislature reconvened this week for a new two-year session, the planets are close to aligning to extend universal health coverage to all of California's kids. Up to now, the only thing universal about this issue has been political defeat at every turn. But there is hope coming in 2007 for the nearly 800,000 children who remain uninsured. Read more >
December 1, 2006
Sacramento Bee
